troubadour

Name: troubadour, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\tʁu.ba.duʁ\

/\tʁu.ba.duʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“troubadour” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,790
frequency rank, French: 3,703
“T” headwords: 14
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien poète épique et/ou lyrique de langue d’oc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-troubadour · troubadour · French

troubadour · rank #44,790 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #44,790
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 14 variants
BOOK-MID 3,703
PHOTO-FINISH troïka

Nearest frequency peer: troïka (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

traversaient

55,214
traversera

55,213
troubadour

55,211
troïka

55,210
turpitudes

55,209
tutoriels

55,208

What this shows « troubadour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

troubadour vs troubadours

91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for troubadour
Property	Value
Headword	troubadour
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\tʁu.ba.duʁ\
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#44,790
Misspellings tracked	14
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « troubadour »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).troubadourse place ici:

#44,790

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « troïka » (#44,791), « traversera » (#44,788), « turpitudes » (#44,792). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « troubadour » est au #44,790. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around troubadour (IPA \tʁu.ba.duʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,790 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for troubadour, with forms such as "rtoubadour", "torubadour", and "trobuadour". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "troubadours", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is troubadour, spelled T-R-O-U-B-A-D-O-U-R.

Definition

1
Ancien poète épique et/ou lyrique de langue d’oc.
2
Ellipse de style troubadour.
3
Personne tentant de séduire par les paroles charmantes, la simplicité et la beauté, mais sans avoir les pieds sur terre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how troubadour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Tel que Cédric le Saxon était à trente ans, il n’avait pas besoin de tout ce clinquant du troubadour français pour se recommander aux oreilles de la beauté.
Ainsi, la poésie lyrique des troubadours et des trouvères, et surtout la portion de cette poésie qui roule sur les sentimens de galanterie chevaleresque, n’a pas une source latine ; cette poésie est née avec la galanterie chevaleresque elle-même.

This word in other languages

troubadour(English)trovador(Español)Trobador(Deutsch)trovador(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

rtoubadour
torubadour
trobuadour
trouabdour
troubaddour
troubadoru
troubadourr
troubaduor
troubaodur
troubbadour
troubdaour
trroubadour
truobadour
ttroubadour

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of troubadour - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "troubadour"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "troubadour"?

"troubadour" is spelled T-R-O-U-B-A-D-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁu.ba.duʁ\.

What does "troubadour" mean?

As a noun, "troubadour" means: Ancien poète épique et/ou lyrique de langue d’oc.

What words are commonly confused with "troubadour"?

"troubadour" is commonly confused with "troubadours". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "troubadour"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "troubadour" is \tʁu.ba.duʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "troubadour" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "troubadour", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

traversera#44,788 turpitudes#44,792 supportées#44,758 émouvantes#44,825

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

suspectée14 variants suffisaient14 variants éterniser14 variants acclamation14 variants